About this title: In Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmarish, suspenseful, and deeply disturbing novel, Dr. Jekyll experiments with a drug that splits his personality into good and evil elements. Gradually, he loses control of the process and finds himself slipping more and more frequently into the guise of the evil and depraved Hyde. Finally, Hyde is accused of murder, and the good doctor, tormented by the struggle between good and evil that he embodies, is forced into an act of violence by his tortured conscience. Narrated by several onlookers, as well as by Jekyll himself, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, one of the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Playmore Publishers
Date Published: 08/2000
ISBN-13:9780866119610ISBN:0866119612
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1964
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, light aging, light creases on spine, top corner of front cover torn off, stk #2387k7. 216 p. read more
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
"Confession - I joined a new book club. I felt like I was cheating on my California book club. I promise I was thinking about them while we discussed the duality of man - the carnal and the supernal. This concept is one those universal battles that all people face- though many do not acknowledge the battle between being their best self and indulging in life's pleasures. Dr. Jekyll is a good man with a good idea about separating our dueling selves, but of course, it does not work out the way he planned and his good British society is altered forever.
I finished this book in audio form walking along the tree lined streets of residential Provo. There was a chill in the air and gorgeous fall leaves crunched under my feet. As the letters were read in the story, I felt another chill - another pull that had nothing to do with the cool November air. It was Henry Jekyll admitting defeat - that his carnal self, which took form in Mr. Hyde, was too strong and would ultimately be the end of the more noble Dr. Jekyll. It made me sad. Giving in felt too real.
I didn't explain this to my new book club. They wouldn't understand. Books alter everything...."
"Dr. Jekyll is a wealthy, honorable, and distinguished man living in Victorian London in 1886. He is obsessed with the idea that different entities or personalities could occupy one mans body. He invents a potion which transforms him into the unattractive and horrific looking Edward Hyde. This disguise allows him to commit any crime he wants. He will not feel the shame or remorse that Dr. Jekyll would feel. This is a story of good vs. evil and the names of Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde have become part of our common language and expression.
This excellent and famous novel made me ponder over the idea that man has a "good" side and "evil" side. I find it fascinating that the description of the physical appearance of the two men were vastly different. I can relate to this because I know many people who act one way with me and different in another situation, just like Dr. Jekyll.
I found that I had to read this book very carefully because there was so much symbolism and different interpretations of the book. It was unlike any other book I have ever read. Parts of it were scary, violent, and even upsetting. I now completely understand the metaphor "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". This expresses the duel nature of all humans and that we are capable of great goodness and unbelievable evil."
"Another classic that I have never read. I was surprised at how short this book is. Not really a "novel," more like a long short story. The beauty of this story is that we get the events from the perspective of a lawyer (Mr. Utterson), even though it's in third person. Then, at the end, we get the whole story from the perspective of Dr. Jekyll, himself. Oddly, all of the representations that I have ever seen of this story (even the Bugs Bunny parody) really don't quite do it justice. Hyde wasn't necessarily an ugly monster, as most people have depicted him. He was, rather, the embodiment of the evil that lives within each of us. I think, in some ways, this is a moral tale. Good vs. evil, and how, if we give it a foot in the door, evil will take over.
Incidentally, I did not like the afteward by Jerome Charyn in the Bantam Classic edition. I find it very pretentious when people presume to tell me what the author really meant. Reminds me of school lit classes, which I also hated. Someday, I would like to write a novel that becomes famous and sit in on a lit class, so I can tell the teacher how wrong he/she is about what I was writing about. Pft."
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